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by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 10, 2011 11:28 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Surrogate Key -- Database Sequence
Replies: 5
Views: 2868

If other applications are also updating the table using the sequence, you can also refer to the sequence nextval property in user-defined SQL.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 10, 2011 11:23 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Designing jobs from stored procedures of SQL server database
Replies: 1
Views: 1292

Analyze the SP logic and implement using DataStage. There are no "conversion" utilities.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:17 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: How to identify jobs or projects that have changed
Replies: 4
Views: 2740

DS_AUDIT is not reliable in version 8. I think Brad's technique is about as clean as you're going to get. The DTM is available through XMETA, but querying that is ugly, even if you use Metadata Workbench.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:15 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Paging space full on datastage 8.1
Replies: 5
Views: 2747

Clearly not. You created more processes than this amount of paging space could deal with. Try to create fewer simultaneous processes.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:14 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Breaking Input value to show on new line
Replies: 4
Views: 1581

Not quite, I asked you to insert Char(10) (linefeed) characters where needed.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:13 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: DataStage 8.1 - Some jobs slow to startup
Replies: 5
Views: 6147

Clearing old entries from the &PH& sub-directory will help, too.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:12 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: ODBC connector issues - Informix DB
Replies: 4
Views: 1889

Welcome aboard.

System tables are read when DataStage checks the metadata in your design against those for the tables you're dealing with.

Did you use a different user name when the run worked?
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:06 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: VALUES ARE NOT UPDATING IN ORALCE
Replies: 1
Views: 1187

Is col1 marked as Key?
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:01 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: Issue with the lookup on custom SQL
Replies: 4
Views: 1803

Look in the job log to see the actual SQL being sent to Oracle. You may need to put single quotes around the parameter markers if their data type warrants. The error is an Oracle error, so you have to figure out why Oracle does not like the SQL that DataStage is sending it. I've even seen the need t...
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 10, 2011 11:54 am
Forum: IBM QualityStage
Topic: 'literal' tab meant for near 'Optional names handling' ?
Replies: 2
Views: 1306

So you can add in some literal (surrounded by ZQ delimiters) when needed, such as to specify the default country in a COUNTRY standardization.
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 10, 2011 11:53 am
Forum: Information Analyzer (formerly ProfileStage)
Topic: View IA published results in DS
Replies: 12
Views: 6323

Close and re-open DataStage Designer?
by ray.wurlod
Thu Mar 10, 2011 2:06 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Bulk Insert in ms sql server
Replies: 4
Views: 3587

Commit is not relevant for bulk load. How have you set up the stage to communicate with the bulk loader?
by ray.wurlod
Wed Mar 09, 2011 7:05 pm
Forum: General
Topic: IIS 8.5 Client Installation on Terminal Server
Replies: 1
Views: 2178

Yes there is an issue. Domain administrator doesn't do it. You must be in the local Adminstrators group.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Mar 09, 2011 3:32 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Pivoting Dynamic number of columns
Replies: 5
Views: 3037

This is more easily accomplished with a server job, in which the Sequential File stage has a "missing column" rule.
by ray.wurlod
Wed Mar 09, 2011 3:31 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Complex Flat File stage with Variable Length rows
Replies: 6
Views: 11579

D0n1117 wrote:does the Complex flat file stage support record_delim_string ?
No.